January un Business Outlook What is the best kind of Book tells of life in religions fast lane the bait RSP What is the best plant you And you are then tok what your friend behoves to be the best Im sura of us have our opinions everyone believing their examine some of the best plans Many are offered by the sav Institutions such as banks trust companies credit unions etc Others are offered by life In surance Companies and still others by mutual fund companies as well as stock brokers The bast may be the in stitution type because we in that our monies are secure because the principal amount not the rate of return are guaranteed by CDIC Canada Deposit In surance Corporation up to Toe best may be from a stock ITS YOUR MONEY Paul J Rocket broker if you are the type who Is an excellent investor knowing what to do and when and are usually right You can have dozens of Btocks in your RSP The best may be a mutual fund RSP where the past has shown you should average at least 15 per cent per year and more over 10 and 15year periods and longer short- term 1 2 3 or 4year periods may be very lucrative or they may not because equity funds do fluctuate up and down short term This writers opinion is that the best RSP is the one that gives you Holiday parties are extremely dif ficult for me to get through without spoiling my diet What can I do that will make it easier Reply Keeping pounds off during the holidays is always difficult At no other rime of the year are there so many fattening foods readily avail able Probably the most important thing you can do is prepare yourself mentally for the evening Start by deciding before you even leave your home what you will and wont eat Picture in your mind the things you will eat and how much youll enjoy them Follow that by picturing your self saying no thank you to fatten ing foods and feel that sense of accomplishment Remember no food tastes as good as being thin- feds Part of the Diet Center Program is dedicated to helping you prepare mentally to become and stay slender To find out how we can help you prepare for the holidays call or come into Diet Center today for a free consultation SSSSIS Business Number 8772900 Home Number 8530780 Mill St Georgetown Personal Consultation By Appointment FOOD0 Money Buy Art- Other Item 200 or More and Receive the Prices Above SPECIALS EFFECT UHT0 WED JAN 18 Sat not Day Every Wad 10 OFF BULK FOOD MACS MILK the greatest rate of return with the element of safety you desire And the one that fits that description we believe Is the mutual fund Why do we believe It to be best Lets examine some of the ad- 1 There Is a selfadministered program run by a company called MRS Multiple Retire ment Savings It allows you to have up to different mutual funds In the one on ly the one trustee fee There are over SO different mutual funds that you can choose from 3 You can change the funds you have amongst the 50 different funds but limited to only at any onetime You can have money market funds earning Interest daily usually paying much more than the savings Institutions You can have Bond Funds investing in Government Bonds resource funds gold funds mortgage funds real estate funds and the good old equity funds that have averaged over 15 per cent over the past years You can have a mix of all types of funds limited to 10 to meet your needs There is no lockup in that your monies are tied up at a fixed- rate for up to 5years as they are with many RSPs 7 You will usually be working with an independent advisor whose firm has no product of Its own but advises you as to what mutual meet your par ticular needs and goals What is YOUR favorite in vestment program Does it have additional or better features And what rate of return does it have After all the person who sets aside per year in an for 20 years at per cent rate of return will have a value of If the mutual fund pro gram averages 15 per cent as they have in the past youll have Almost twice as much I Which would you rather have to retire with For free RRSP information con tact Peter C Masses Drive Georgetown Oat L7G Or phone 8777216 Paul J Rocket la the author of the best seller Why I Invest in Mutual Funds and President of Regal Capital Planners Ltd By Dr Warren K McKtnnon Ordination of homosexuals clergy resignations warring church factions and the withholding of funds are some of the Issues confronting the United Church today But the makebelieve world of American televangeilsm Is also be ing bedevilled by the sexual behavior of clergy the misuse of church funds and the political in trigue of Individuals and boards In fact the struggles of the United Church pale in comparison to the sex and money scandals of the electronic church of the US Televangellsms distinctive mix of religious fervor marketing schemes and political is the subject of The of Greed The Inside Story Of The And Their Holy Wars by Larry Marts General Publishing Co pages Martz a Newsweek magazine senior editor assisted by Newsweek reporter Glnny Carrol highlights the sexual behavior that defrocked PTLs Jim Batter the of his wife Tammy Faye PTLs exploitation of the taxexempt status for religious ministries In building the Heritage USA theme park North Carolina and the guile of the Old Time Gospel Hours Jerry Falwell In his old for PTL control RELIGIONS FAST LANE The book details life as it is lived in religions fast lane a life that is completely foreign to the average pastor pastors spouse or parishioner Jim and Tammy Bac ker love to spend money They had an everchanging fleet of Cadillacs Mercedeses and Rolls- Royces There were permanent wardrobes in most of their eight luxury homes located In North Carolina Florida and California In one of them Tammy had a 50foot wide walkin closet with chandelier lighting Lodging ex cesses extended even to family pets In the photograph section of the book there is a snapshot of an airconditioned doghouse Lifestyle excesses were reflected in sexual behavior as well One of the four explanations for the acronym was People That Love the others were Praise The Lord and the critics choices Pass The Loot and Pay The Lady But love relationships at PTL were pursued with the same desperate selfIndulgence that characterized shopping sprees According to Martz wifeswapping prostitutes and homosexual partners were nursery furniture accessories maternity fashions infant wear gifts toys N0RTHVIEW CENTRE Georgetown Across from Canadian Tire 8732448 MM Fntts Wets Sews MnfRn JANUARY Mill J 20 OFF ALL STOCK BOOKS AND STATIONERY 1 PRICE 1989CALENDARS CHRISTMAS CARDS CHRISTMAS WRAP ID HOURS pm 930900 pm Sat pm 0XB0W BOOKS 8778861 102 Main St S Downtown Georgetown part of the lovemaking liaisons for the People That Loves The editor of the Charlotte NC Observer newspaper dis counted the sexual peccadilloes of celebrities and preferred to focus on PTLs fiscal irrespon sibility Nevertheless as emphasires it was Bakkers sex- Mi encounter with Babylons New Yak Jessica Hahn in a Florida hotel room that brought PTL na tional notoriety Sexual pec cadilloes and fiscal sin became inseparable when PTL opened a hush money account called the Jessica Hahn Trust Fund MORTAL FAILURE Assemblies of God officials in Springfield Missouri could not countenance the Bak plea of blackmail For them it was a covemp for moral failure If Jim Bakker repented restoration to the ministry could occur after a twoyear period If there were proof of homosexuality he was gone for life As tough as that may sound suggests that denomina tional authority cannot compete with the financial and corporate power of the For in stance Jimmy Swaggert recently charged with immorality con tributed million a year to his Assemblies of God denomination Its not surprising that he refused the mandatory twoyear count for repentance and has returned to his role as the raging bull of the religious ring With reference to denominational relation ship Martz notes that it was main ly for tax exemptions that lav vera advised Jim Bakker in I960 to af filiate the ministry with the Assemblies of God It was the tax- exempt status that could have tempted Bakker to bill a wave- making machine for the water park to the taxfree religious ministry account Martz blames the television medium as much as the televangellsts for creating the illu sion that glitz is God Martz argues that TV in general and religious TV in particular is notoriously bad at delivering complex ideas some readers of Newsweek magazine might offer the same criticism Its true that 26 minutes of every Old Time Gospel Hour is spent appealing for money But thats no different than a magazine or newspaper being dominated by the same commercial need The average North American newspaper allots 60 per cent of its pages for advertising and per cent for news The returned to televi sion a few days ago Only six sta tions aired their new syndicated show The Ministry of Greed reminds all entrepreneurs religious or otherwise that there is a delicate balance to 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